Description: Six fragments, all possibly from the same white marble
panel.
a) Top edge, surviving,
w:
0.16 x h:
0.165.
b) Top edge, surviving,
w:
0.10 x h:
0.125.
c) Top edge, surviving,
w:
0.13 x h:
0.13.
d) No edges surviving,
w:
0.13 x h:
0.11.
e) No edges surviving,
w:
0.22 x h:
0.23 .
f) No edges surviving,
w:
0.12 x h:
0.14.
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Second to third centuries lapidary capitals: 0.08.
Date: Second to early third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot:
Sabratha: Regio I, Capitolium, found in the vaults; see note on 1.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
b.1: Truncated. B or R may be read for P
c.1: Truncated. B or R may be read for P
f.2: Truncated. C may be read for G
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
a. [---] son [---]; b-e (Not usefully translatable); f (The titles Caesar and Augustus.)
Commentary
The style and material suggest an imperial dedication. Fragment (f) perhaps reads Imp. Caes .../... Aug ...
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 67, whence IRT, 2009, 67, whence EDH 059058; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.